In this article, the visions and perceptions of national identity held by girls and boys residing in the border region of Tacna and Arica were explored. Therefore, a portion of the results obtained in the doctoral research thesis "Drawing the Border: Tacna and Arica from the perspective of boys and girls," presented in 2021 at the Department of Latin American Studies at the University of Brasilia, is presented. The purpose of this work was to understand and analyze how boys and girls conceived, experienced, and assimilated their national identity. To achieve this, specific questions were formulated, such as "What does it mean to you to be Peruvian?" and "What does it mean to you to be Chilean?" addressed to 27 students aged 10 to 12 from the Carlos Armando Laura School in Tacna (Peru) and 7 students of the same age group from various schools in the city of Arica (Chile). This study was p...